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1908
John W. Lay
In the year 1863, at the age of eighteen, I volunteered in the confederate service in Company E, 4th North Carolina Cavalry and General Derring�s brigade. My Company was under the command of Captain Brice, of Charlotte, N.C. and in the Cavalry under colonel D. D. Ferby, of Oxford, N.C.
I joined my company at Snow Hill, N.C. and first saw active service at Kinston N.C. about the first of February 1863. There after a small skirmish at Washington, N.C. a few days later, we were transferred to Northern Virginia. There we were stationed until about the first of January 1864, when we were again called into service at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and the subsequent battle of the Wilderness, and Molons Ford on the Rappadan [sic] River. Here our forces, under the direct command of General R.E. Lee, repulsed Gen.

1908
John W. Lay
In the year 1863, at the age of eighteen, I volunteered in the confederate service in Company E, 4th North Carolina Cavalry and General Derring�s brigade. My Company was under the command of Captain Brice, of Charlotte, N.C. and in the Cavalry under colonel D. D. Ferby, of Oxford, N.C.
I joined my company at Snow Hill, N.C. and first saw active service at Kinston N.C. about the first of February 1863. There after a small skirmish at Washington, N.C. a few days later, we were transferred to Northern Virginia. There we were stationed until about the first of January 1864, when we were again called into service at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and the subsequent battle of the Wilderness, and Molons Ford on the Rappadan [sic] River. Here our forces, under the direct command of General R.E. Lee, repulsed Gen.